A new wave of Australian composers has been recognised at the annual Screen Music Awards in Sydney, which also honoured producer and director Robert Connolly.
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The event, held on Monday night at the City Recital Hall, celebrates the Australian composers who have made an impact during the previous year across TV, film, online and advertising.
Screen composer Caitlin Yeo took out the Feature Film Score of the Year award for The Butterfly Tree, a movie about an ex-burlesque queen who puts a curse on a single dad and his son Fin.
The film's score also earned Yeo a second award in the category of Best Soundtrack Album.
Matteo Zingales also received two Screen Music Awards - the first for Harrow, in the category of Best Television Theme, the second for ABC TV series Mystery Road, an award he shares with Antony Partos.
Nerida Tyson-Chew won a gong in the category of Best Music for Children's Television for her work on children's animated television series The Deep, while father and son composers Cezary and Jan Skubiszewski won an award for Best Music for a Television Series or Serial for the Picnic at Hanging Rock reboot.
Tonight's festivities introduced a new guard of composers with four first-time winners. The Best Music for a Documentary honour has gone to Perth-based musician and composer Sean Tinnion, who dazzled judges with his score for the ABC's A Stargazer's Guide to the Cosmos.
Adrian Sergovich landed a Best Music for a Short Film award for his highly praised score for Lost and Found; Oscar Joe Gross was awarded for the song Now I Know from ABC drama Pulse; and composer Jackson Milas won Best Music for an Advertisement with his catchy Forty Winks campaign.
Producer and director Robert Connolly, best known for his work on Balibo and Romulus, My Father, said it was "a great honour" to receive the Distinguished Services to Australian Screen Award because screen music has made an "extraordinary contribution" to his work.
"I remain in awe of the creative insight and impact that composers have contributed to the film and television productions I have worked on," he said. "So many times the profound emotional and narrative elements that have eluded me as a filmmaker have been so much more clearly explored by the composer."
SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS WINNERS
Distinguished Services to the Australian Screen Award - Robert Connolly
Feature Film Score of the Year - The Butterfly Tree composed by Caitlin Yeo
Best Television Theme - Harrow composed by Matteo Zingales (Sonar Music)
Best Music for a Television Series or Serial - Picnic at Hanging Rock composed by Cezary Skubiszewski and Jan Skubiszewski
Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie - Mystery Road composed by Antony Partos and Matteo Zingales (Sonar Music)
Best Music for a Documentary - A Stargazer's Guide to the Cosmos composed by Sean Tinnion
Best Music for a Short Film - Lost and Found composed by Adrian Sergovich
Best Soundtrack Album - The Butterfly Tree composed by Caitlin Yeo
Best Original Song Composed for the Screen - Now I Know from Pulse composed by Oscar Joe Gross (ABC Music Publishing)
Best Music for Children's Television - The Deep: The Missing composed by Nerida Tyson-Chew
Best Music for an Advertisement - Forty Winks composed by Jackson Milas Published by Sonar Music
Most Performed Screen Composer (Australia) - Dinesh Wicks and Adam Gock
Most Performed Screen Composer (Overseas) - Neil Sutherland
Australian Associated Press